众议院议长南希·佩洛西周四低调向进步民主党人发出严厉警告，她在警告中告诉她的成员不要在推特上公开向同事发牢骚。
面对来自纽约大学新生自由主义者亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯、密歇根大学的拉希达·特拉伊布、明尼苏达州的伊尔汉·奥马尔和马萨诸塞州的阿扬纳·普雷斯利——或他们所称的“小队”——的批评，佩洛西说，如果他们对她的责骂感到生气，特权就“由他们自己决定”
佩洛西在每周一次的新闻发布会上说:“他们生气是因为我在会员的要求下发了一条攻击性的推文，这条推文来自会员办公室，其中提到了我们的蓝狗和新民主党，本质上是种族隔离主义者。”。“我们的成员对此很生气。我解决了这个问题。他们如何解释并把它带到另一个地方，取决于他们。但我不会再讨论它了。”
在佩洛西和新生进步人士就被拘留移民的紧急人道主义援助以及新成员掌握的权力出现意识形态分歧之际，这种加倍努力显示出这位加州议员继续愿意接受她所在政党直言不讳、夸夸其谈的自由派。
6月27日，众议院议长南希·佩洛西在DC首都华盛顿举行的每周新闻发布会上回答问题。温·麦克纳尼/盖蒂的照片
佩洛西最近质疑了“小队”的力量纽约时报采访中，该团体是唯一投票反对众议院最初45亿美元人道主义援助的民主党人，该援助旨在改善条件，帮助缓解边境拘留设施的过度拥挤状况。该组织表示，他们反对为国土安全部下属的移民机构提供更多资金，以改善收容儿童移民的拘留设施的条件，尽管一揽子援助计划限制了政府如何支出资金，并要求这些中心达到某些标准。
针对众议院随后将其支持转移到由共和党控制的参议院版本的46亿美元法案，该法案没有包括众议院关于如何使用这笔钱的更多更强有力的条件，国会进步核心小组共同主席代表马克·波坎(Mark Pocan)在推特上表示，支持参议院版本的温和民主党人是“虐待儿童核心小组”的一部分
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯的幕僚长赛卡特·查克拉巴蒂也发布了一系列推特，批评佩洛西在一些问题上的立场，包括弹劾和她对“阵容”的看法他把蓝狗民主党——更中间派的党员——称为“新南方民主党”
查克拉巴蒂在推特上写道:“他们今天肯定会像40年代的老南方民主党人那样，一心扑在黑人和棕色人种身上。”他后来删除了这条微博。
佩洛西在周三的每周党团会议上斥责了她的成员，发出了严厉但明确的信息。
“你让我成为目标，但不要让我们的蓝狗和新民主党成为所有这一切的目标，因为我们有重要的鱼要煎，”她说，据房间里的一个人说。“你有投诉吗？你过来和我谈谈。但不要在推特上谈论我们的会员，希望我们认为这没关系。”
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯后来去了华盛顿邮报,告诉经销店她和她的三个新生同事认为这些话“完全不尊重”
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯说:“当这些评论第一次开始的时候，我有点认为她是为了保护更温和的成员而让进步的侧翼保持更远的距离，我理解这一点。”。“但是持久兴师问罪...这已经到了完全不尊重的地步...明确挑出新当选的有色人种妇女。”
佩洛西周四否认了这一观点，称她的指责不应被视为针对特定成员的不当行为，而是保持党内团结的一种方式。
“我昨天在党团会议上说的话得到了我的成员们压倒性的回应，因为他们知道事实是什么——我们的回应是什么。我们尊重核心小组每个成员的价值，”她告诉记者。“这一切的多样性是一件美妙的事情。多样性是我们的力量，团结是我们的力量，我们有一场大战，我们在竞技场上，这就是我要说的一切。”
NANCY PELOSI SAYS IF ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ AND 'THE SQUAD' ARE OFFENDED BY HER SCOLDING, IT'S 'UP TO THEM'
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi doubled down Thursday on her stern warning issued to progressive Democrats behind closed doors the day prior, in which she told her members not to publicly broadcast gripes with colleagues on Twitter.
Responding to criticism from freshmen liberals Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts—or "The Squad," as they've been referred to—Pelosi said that if they took offense to her scolding, the prerogative is "up to them."
"They took offense because I addressed—at the request of my members—an offensive tweet that came out of one of the member's offices that referenced our Blue Dogs and our New Dems, essentially as segregationists," Pelosi said during her weekly press conference. "Our members took offense at that. I addressed that. How they are interpreting and carrying it to another place, is up to them. But I'm not going to be discussing it any further."
The doubling down, which showed the California lawmaker's continued willingness to take on the outspoken and bombastic liberal wing of her party, came as the ideological disagreements between Pelosi and freshmen progressives over emergency humanitarian aid for detained migrants and the power wielded by new members spilled over into the public arena.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answers questions during her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on June 27 in Washington, DC.PHOTO BY WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY
Pelosi chided her members during the party's weekly caucus meeting Wednesday, issuing a stern—but clear—message.
"You make me the target, but don't make our Blue Dogs and our New Dems the target in all of this, because we have important fish to fry," she said, according to a person in the room. "You got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it. But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just okay."
Ocasio-Cortez later went to The Washington Post, telling the outlet that she and her three freshmen colleagues viewed the remarks as "outright disrespectful."
"When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm's distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood," Ocasio-Cortez said. "But the persistent singling out... it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful... the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color."
Pelosi denied that notion Thursday, saying her scolding should not be taken as wrongfully targeting specific members but rather as a way to keep the party united.
"What I said in the caucus yesterday had an overwhelming response from my members because they know what the facts are—what we responded to. We respect the value of every member of our caucus," she told reporters. "The diversity of it all is a wonderful thing. Diversity is our strength, unity is our power, and we have a big fight and we're in the arena, and that's all I'm going to say on the subject."
